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By Dipesh Chakrabarty,Homi K. Bhabha,Sheldon Pollock,Carol A. Breckenridge
By interpreting new information, offering new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new probabilities of political perform, the participants seriously probe the idea that of cosmopolitanism. at the one hand, cosmopolitanism might be taken to vow a kind of supraregional political team spirit, yet at the different, those essays argue, it may well erode accurately these intimate cultural modifications that derive their which means from specific areas and traditions. on condition that so much cosmopolitan political formations—from the Roman empire and eu imperialism to modern globalization—have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? ultimately, the amount asks no matter if cosmopolitanism can promise any universalism that isn't the unwarranted generalization of a few Western particular.
Contributors. Ackbar Abbas, Arjun Appadurai, Homi okay. Bhabha, T. okay. Biaya, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ousame Ndiaye Dago, Mamadou Diouf, Wu Hung, Walter D. Mignolo, Sheldon Pollock, Steven Randall
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